Graduate tesl/tefl certificate

AVAILABLE ON-LINE DURING SUMMER I
or ON-CAMPUS FALL & SPRING

NB: If you already have an Indiana teaching license, you can add the ENL licensure by completing our Graduate Certificate in TESL/TEFL. Licensure will be for the level of your original license.

Certificate in TESL/TEFL* (Graduate Level)

12-hour program preparing students to teach English as a second or foreign language
may be pursued concurrently with any other graduate degree but not necessarily so
Available via Distance during the summer, although not every course may be offered every summer. Contact Dr. Leslie Barratt.

Course Requirements:

LING 601: English Syntax - 3 hrs.
LING 520: Language Acquisition - 3 hrs.
LING 613: Teaching English as a Second Language - 3 hrs.
One Elective chosen from LING 513, LING 514, LING 515, LING 517, LING 621, and LING 792 - 3 hrs.

The Certificate can be earned during another graduate program by taking one of the courses each semester for 2 years, or it can be completed in 1 year by taking two courses each semester.

Applied Experience Requirement:

This requirement is fulfilled by doing one of the following:

2 years study (or equivalent fluency) of a language that is not the student's native language
Experience living in a culture that is not the student's native culture (3 months minimum)
ESL/EFL teaching or cross-cultural experience (3 months minimum)

To APPLY:

Please complete all steps as outlined on our Graduate Admissions page here.

*Definitions from David Crystal's Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language:

EFL: English seen in the context of countries where it is not the mother tongue and has no special status, such as Japan, France, Egypt, and Brazil. . . .

ESL: English in countries where it holds special status as a medium of communication [e.g., India, Singapore]. . . . The term has also been applied to the English of immigrants and other foreigners who live within a country where English is the first language.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: See http://www.indstate.edu/distance/eslefl-certificate_coursedesc.html or Contact the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at 812-237-2677 or LLL@indstate.edu.